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normal week in providence

confirmed real: https://www.tiktok.com/@nothingbutbri...

ex. 1:
[protagonist falls from ladder] thank god [wife character] used to be a trained pole-vaulter and could leap into action...
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ex. ~9:
[protagonist mentions someone being an electrician "on the side"] "on the SIDE..." said [female coworker character], biting her lip...

stephen graham jones have you met a woman who talks or acts like these

any

thomas pynchon's gravity's rainbow if rockets werent penis-shaped: [book that is 25 pages]

https://i.imgur.io/CpDUmyr_d.webp?max...

lads

bro [punching palm] bro youre so fuckin lucky you dont live in providence bro its incomprehensible cosmic horrors out here bro im talkin bro im talkin immaterial beings so spooky bro you wouldnt bro you wouldnt even believe me if i told you how spooky these old ones are man bro you gotta bro i

it is time: https://twitter.com/notbenmarshall/st...

australians are just like this

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ktPhG...

okay so I thought "book that is almost 100% dialogue" sounded really intriguing but...it really *do be* almost 100% dialogue, as in on every page you have to *figure out* who's speaking, where they are, and what's happening while they speak at all times based on the *tiniest* context clues, with ZERO chapter breaks. it's an 800-page unending chapter of out-of-context lines. it hurts my tiny baby brain, im sorry!!

midpoint update: genuinely cant tell if this book is some kind of extended elaborate prank or not

sad boi spring lets go

fun fact from less than ten pages in: any time Tommy Wiseau sits down in a restaurant he immediately asks the waiter for "a hot water" and gets actively angry if they express any confusion at this ("why you give me hard time? do I speak Chinese?") this is going to beautiful

"i know some of these words".jpg